Secret Hitler Online

Web application for the board game

This is a project for playing the Secret Hitler board game online. This is a study project for me to familiarise myself to websockets, kotlin, react, spring boot and build tools (gradle kts and react-scripts).

Current progress

A most basic 0.0.1 version of the game is now completed and is hosted in aws.

License and Attribution

Secret Hitler is designed by Max Temkin (Cards Against Humanity, Humans vs. Zombies), Mike Boxleiter (Solipskier, TouchTone), Tommy Maranges (Philosophy Bro) and illustrated by Mackenzie Schubert (Letter Tycoon, Penny Press).

This game is licensed as per the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

TODO

• Make connections more sturdy - if person disconnects then game should not break
• Make UI more usable, beautiful
• Make application INFO level logs accessible after game for analysis
• The recommended changes (there are less fascist policies when there are certain number of players)
• Add socialists to game dynamic

Building for local development

For local development one needs to:

• run ./gradlew clean build
• change frontend url to http://localhost:8080 in .env
• change CorsFilter.kt to allow http://localhost:3000 CORS headers
• run yarn install and yarn start in src/main/webapp
• either run application in intelliJ or run ./gradlew bootRun

Deploying

I used the following process for building:

• run ./gradlew copyWebApp
• add index.css to build/resources/main/static/static and change index.html to include that css file
• run ./gradlew build
• make sure that .env in src/main/webapp is correct and the correct url and port is set in CorsFilter.kt
• deploy built jar to beanstalk (needs 5000 port to be opened)